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Vol.1. PUBLISHED QUARTERLY. No. I. 

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Post Office at Georgetown, Ky., as 

second class matter. 




ROCKWOOD GIDDINGS, 

PRESIDENT 1838-39. 



HISTORICAL SKETCH 



OF 



GEORGETOWN COLLEGE 



AN ADDRESS 



READ AT THE ANNUAL COMMENCE- 
MENT JUNE 7TH, 1904, 



BY 



ARTHUR YAGER 



PRESS OF TIMES JOB ROOMS, 
GEORGETOWN,- KY. 









HISTORY OF GEORGETOWN 
COLLEGE. 



A College may be defined as an organized society 
of teachers and students, meeting together for pur- 
poses of study, in buildings maintained and equipped 
for these uses, by a corporation chartered for the pur- 
pose. There is sometimes some confusion in the pop- 
ular mind as to which of these three things is the 
real College— the chartered corporation with its Board 
of Trustees, its legal powers, and property rights; or 
the buildings and apparatus with their romantic asso- 
ciations, redolent ever of the dreams and fancies of 
youth; or, finally the constantly assembling and dis- 
solving assembly of professors and pwpils — the College 
itself with its ever changing personel, but an un- 
changing spirit. 

Surely all these things, and more besides, are essen- 
tial to a College. The organized society which consti- 
tutes the vital principle of the College must be con- 
trolled and supported and guided, and the materia} 
equipments must be provided and maintained by a 
corporation of wide powers and large means, in order 
to make possible an educational institution of per- 
manence and power. 



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GEORGETOWN COLLEGE- 



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THE CHARTERS AND CORPORATIONS. 

The history of Georgetown College has centered 
about three charters, each of them creating a distinct 
corporation, and yet all of them closely interwoven in 
their legal relations with each other, and the College. 

First— Charter of 1829. 

First, there's the charter of 1829 creating a 
corporation called the "Trustees of the Kentucky Bap- 
tist Educational Society," a corporation which is still 
the kernel and governing body of the whole institution. 
These Trustees were named in the charter, were given 
the power to perpetuate themselves by filling vacancies 
in their own body — and in general all the powers and 
privileges granted to any other academy of learning 
in this State. Their right to own property, however, 
for some reason was limited to an amount, the annual 
income from which would not exceed $50,000. Accord- 
ing to this charter, these Trustees were themselves the 
corporation, or rather they were made the agents of 
a fictitious educational society which had not yet come 
into existence. 

Second— Charter of 1851. 

In 1851 an amendment was secured to the charter 
of 1829, which was in effect a new charter, and created 
a new corporation, called the Kentucky Baptist Educa- 



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tion Society, composed of all who have paid, or shall 
hereafter pay, into the treasury of the College as much 
as $100.00, and gave to this new corporation the exclu- 
sive power, if they choose to exercise it, to elect the 
Trustees who constituted the earlier corporation. This 
amendment, therefore, sought to create a Kentucky 
Baptist Education Society which seemed to be only 
presupposed in the earlier charter, and yet it did not 
alter or abridge, in any way, any of the powers con- 
ferred on the Trustees by the original charter, save 
only the manner of their election. 

Third— The Students' Association. 

The third charter about which the life of the Col- 
lege has grown is the document which created the 
Students' Association of Georgetown College. This 
charter was secured in 1876, and formed a corporation 
of old students Who may hold and control property 
quite apart from the College corporation, but who 
may use their property for no other purpose than to 
endow professorships and otherwise assist education 
in Geargetown College. 

WESTERN BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE 

This is the proper place to mention that in 18f>3 
Georgetown College became closely connected with an 
entirely separate corporation called the Western Bap- 
tist Theological Institute, of Covington, Ky. This in- 
stitution had been running for several years at Cov- 



GEORGETOWN COLLEGE. 



ington under a charter of its own, as a Theological 
Seminary, with some sorts of College work attached, 
for the purpose of preparing its students for their 
theological studies. It had good buildings and grounds 
at Covington, and other funds besides, but its Board 
and Faculty became hopelessly and bitterly divided on 
the slavery controversy, and in 1852, having split into 
two irreconcilable camps, the anti-slavery party moved 
over into Cincinnati, carrying with them all the 
mova'ble funds. The other party took possession of the 
grounds and buildings, which, under the provisions of 
their charter, could not be used for any institution 
outside of Kentucky, but they were compelled to sus- 
pend operations for several months. In 1853 they 
moved the institute to Georgetown, and for more than 
thirty years it was operated in connectioD with the 
College. Finally, in 1886, under the tactful leadership 
of Doctor Dudley, the Trustees decided to go into 
voluntary liquidation, and turn over to the College 
the remnant of their property, together with their 
rights and obligations. 

THE GROUNDS AND BUILDINGS. 

The buildings of the College, like its chartered 
co'panies, have gradually grown and expanded, as lis 
meeds and its means increased. 

For the first ten years of its life there were na 
buildings save the old Ritten house Academy, which 
occupied the site of the present Academy building, and 



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which, with the western half of the campus, seems to 
have come into the possession of the College partly by 
a sort of consolidation with the old Rittenhouse Acad- 
emy, and partly by donation of a site by the citizens 
of the town to secure the location of the College. In 
1840 the present Recitation Hall was commenced, the 
first building ever erected by the College. Paulding: 
"Hall, that is, the old part of it which constitutes the 
rear of the present edifice, was erected very early, but 
I have been unable to discover the date. It was ran- 
iioned in the first catalogue— 1845-46— and may pos- 
sibly have been built before the death of Issacliar 
Paulding, which occurred, according to Spencer's His- 
tory of Kentucky Baptists, in 1832. In 1839 the east- 
ern half of the campus, nearly ten acres, was sold to 
the College by Alexander Offutt for one hundred dol- 
lars per acre. 

In 1852 the College bought the building near the 
campus, now occupied and owned by Rev. T. J. Stev- 
enson, and turned it into a dormitory, called Judson 
Hall. This building, however, seemed to be ill adapted 
to the purpose, and in 1859 the property was sold to 
Professor Rucker, and was afterwards for a short 
time the seat of the Female Seminary, 

In 1854 the corporation bought for the President's 
residence the grounds and southeast part of the build- 
ing which is now known as the "Old Seminary," and 
in 1869, the larger and newer part of that building was 
eonstructed for the use of the Female Seminary of 
Professor Rucker. This building was not couverted 



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to its present use until 1895. In 1869 the grounds to- 
the south of the campus and the building now owned 
by Mrs. Dudley was purchased for a President's resi- 
dence, and the present residence of the President was 
erected on a part of these grounds in 1889. 

The present Academy building was built about 
1861. In 1879 the new front was built to Paulding 
Hall with money secured by the ladies of the Baptist 
Church of Georgetown, under the leadership of Mrs.. 
Sarah Thomas and the late Mrs. Jas. F. Robinson. 
This large Chapel Building in which we now meet was 
"built in 1894, and the beautiful Rucker Hall, across^ 
the street, in 1805, transactions so recent that their 
history need not be recounted. 

THE COLLEGE. 

But charters and buildings, however essential and 
important, cannot, as has been said already, alone 
make a College. These are the shell — the vital part of 
the institution remains to be traced. The life that has- 
gone on, in and aronnfd these buildings, and under the 
over-arching sphere of the legal documents— the ever 
flowing and ebbing tide of young humanity — the more 
permanent and yet frequently vanishing figures of 
presidents and professors, of trustees and officers that 
have given form and shape and substance to the work, 
and play, carried on upon the campus — these constitute 
the flesh and blood of my subject, the history of the 
College. 



GEORGETOWN COLLEGE. 



The first ten years of this story are wrapped in 
mystery — a mystery which my researches have been 
tmable to dispel. It seems, however, that they were 
years of trouble and turmoil and confusion. 

There was a contest over the location of the Col- 
lege between Georgetown and Versailles, and the 
former had secured the prize by a. gift of $6,000. This 
together with a generous donation of $20,000 made by 
Issachar Paulding seems to have constituted the entire 
property of the institution during the first decade of 
its existence. The .young corporation was confronted 
by foes without and within. There was litigation hi 
the courts over its property, there were faction and 
strife in the Board itself. These were t>he years of 
the mighty conflict and upheaval among the Baptists 
of Kentucky, caused by the preaching of Alexander 
Campbell, and there was a contest between the two 
parties for the possession of the young institution of 
learning. 

During this contest there was founded here at 
Georgetown, in 1836, by the Disciples party, aia insti- 
tution called Bacon College, named in honor of Lord 
Bacon, the purpose, of which was to aid them in their 
struggle for this seat of learning. 

During these ten years there were secured by the 
College three distinguished Presidents — Doctor Wm. 
Staughton, who died on his way to Georgetown; 
Doctor Joel S. Bacon, who served for only two years, 
and Doctor B. F. Farnsworth, who served only a few 




HOWARD MALCOM, 

PRESIDENT L84C-49- 



GEORGETOWN COLLEGE. 



months. For a part of the time the College was run 
as a private enterprise, and part of the time was in 
a state of suspended animation. At last, by the guid- 
ing hand of Providence, there ca*ne to the College, in 
1838, duly elected as its president, a master spirit— a 
born leader of men — a man who, if opportunity had 
offered, could have been famous as an empire builder, 
or founder of nations. This was Rockwood Giddings, 
a young pastor of Shelbyville, whose administration 
of the College lasted a little more than one year; and 
yet he, together with Issachar Paulding, were really the 
founders of Georgetown College as far as that honor 
<?an be awarded to any two men. Frail of body, deli- 
eat e, almost effeminate of countenance, he possessed 
.a. soul that seemed in some stransre way to gain the 
ascendancy over all with whom he came in contact- 
He undertook great things — and yet he undertook 
nothing that he did not accomplisk. As soon as he 
became acquainted with the discordant elements of the 
College, under the influence of his ardent spirit, the 
voice of discord was hushed — one faction of the Board 
resigned, and a harmonious reorganization was 
effected. 

The litigation was settled. The followers of Alex- 
ander Campbell gave up the struggle for a College at 
Georgetown, and in 1839 removed Bacon College to 
Harrodsburg. Doctor Giddings then turned his atten- 
tion to the further needs of the institution, and saw 
that with all the harmony in the world, he could not 
make a College without endowment and buildings. He 



10 GEORGETOWN COLLEGE. 

threw himself at once into the great task of raising an 
endowment, and asked the faction-torn and discour- 
aged Baptists of Kentucky, only about 40,000 in num- 
!>©r, for $100,000. 

Such was his enthusiasm, his almost hypnotic 
power over the hearts and pockets of his brethren that 
in eight months he had gathered together, in good 
notes, $80.000— a truly wonderful achievement •consid- 
ering the time at which it was accomplished. As far 
as I have been able to ascertain, it was to Doctor 
Giddings also that we are indepted for the general 
plan of the old College building now called Recitation 
Hall. Together with Doctor J. E. Farnam, his class- 
mate at Waterville, Maine, whom he had induced to 
come with him from Shelby ville to Georgetown in 
1838, he drew the plans for this noble old edifice, so 
simple and sincere in its architecture — so pure and 
classical in its outline— that it stands now, and 1 hope 
will stand for another hundred years, a beautiful mon- 
ument to his memory. This is not the place for sugges- 
tions, but I will venture to remark that I hope some 
day to see built to the south end of Recitation Hall an 
Ionic portico like the one at the north end, and then 
the old building rededieated and renamed "Giddings 
Hall," in honor of the first really effective President 
of the College. 

But these consuming labors destroyed the frail 
feody of the eager young President. In October, 1839, 
he fell in the pulpit while preaching, and was carried 
i>ack to his old home in Shelby ville, only to die in a 



GEORGETOWN COLLEGE. II 

few days. The one year of Doctor Griddings* 
administration had transformed the College. When 
his successor came to Georgetown he found 
an institution with a harmonious Board, with 
no competition in the town, with a commodious build- 
ing under construction, and with a fairly ample en- 
dowment for those days, in the form of notes and sub- 
scriptions. This successor was Doctor Howard Mal- 
eom, one of the most distinguished and eloquent 
preachers who ever labored amongst the Baptists of 
Kentucky. A man of versatile mind, of splendid schol- 
arship, widely known as an author and a preacher, 
Dr. Malcolm was an ideal college president. But the 
panic of 1840 swept away a large part of the endow- 
ment, by destroying the solvency of those who had 
promised it, and Doctor Malcolm, in spite of his broad 
culture and brilliant intellect, was greatly hampered 
by lack of funds. 

Nevertheless, the College did steady and efficient 
work. The annual catalogues, which began to be pub- 
lished in 1846, show a small but efficient and capable 
Faculty, consisting mainly of Professor J. E. Farnam 
and Professor Danford Thomas and the President— a 
goodly number of students coming from various States, 
and a well organized course of instruction for that 
time. There is a general atmosphere of good, honest, 
wholesome work about the catalogue of this period 
that speaks well for the educational ability of the 
President and his Faculty. But the close of Doctor 
Malcolm's administration was marked, and his resigna- 



12 GEORGETOWN COLLEGE. 

tion caused by a recrudence of dissensions ia the 
Board, and among the students and the public. Thie 
time it was political instead of religious, caused by 
the intense excitement attending the slavery contro- 
versy in those years. Doctor Malcolm was an Eastern 
man, and though he was a scholar and a gentleman 
and a Christian, he shared to some extent the tin com- 
promising feelings of our Northern brethren on this 
great question. And so he resigned for the sake of 
peace. After a brief and uneventful interval under 
Doctor J. L. Reynolds, the College entered upon an 
epoch of great prosperity and expansion under the 
leadership of perhaps the greatest executive that ever 
presided over the fortunes of a Kentucky College. 
This President was Duncan R. Campbell, who came to 
Georgetown in June, 1852, from Covington, Ky., where 
he had been a professor in Western Baptist Theological 
Institute. He was a most potent personality, full of en- 
ergy, tact, and enthusiasm, and in a few years he had 
pushed the College into the front ranks of the insti- 
tutions of learning in the whole West and South. It* 
halls were filled with young men, the flower and cream 
of the educational material of a half dozen States. 
Under the aggressive and powerful influence of Doc- 
tor Campbell, there passed through Georgetown Col- 
lege scores of notable men who afterwards became 
leading preachers, lawyers, doctors, judges, states- 
men and soldiers of their respective States, and had 
much to do in shaping the destiny of Kentucky and the 
South. 



GEORGETOWN COLLEGE. 1$ 

In 1855 the patronage of the College had far out- 
grown its facilities, and Doctor Campbell threw his 
mighty resources into an effort to increase the endow- 
ment. In about two years' time he had secured an 
addition to the endowment in good collectible notes 
of about $106,000. These notes however, were as usual 
payable in annual instalments of five or more years: and' 
before half of them had been collected, the great cat- 
astrophe of the Civil war had swept ever the land and 
wrecked the business, and the fortunes of those who 
had promised them. As the panic of twenty years be- 
fore, so the war of 1860 played havoc with a great 
work, almost achieved. 

Doctor Campbell lived only long enough to earrjr 
the College through the trying ordeal of the Civil war, 
dying suddenly in 1865. 

Following Doctor Campbell's death, and the war, 
the College entered upon a period of quiet and pain- 
ful readjustment to a changed environment. For fifteen 
years this process went on. The patronage fell off. the 
prestige of the school gradually declined. During this 
period two very distinguished and scholarly men serv- 
ed successively, as president of the College;— Doctor 
N. M. Crawford, 1865-1871, and Doctor Basil Manly, 
1871-79. Eloquent preachers both of them, scholarly 
and vigorous teachers, widely known and honored men 
of God, it was in no way due to them that the College 
was not progressing and expanding,— the conditions 
upon which its former prosperity was founded had 
been completely altered. The whole organized social 



14 GEORGETOWN COLLEGE. 



fabric from which it had drawn its Students had been 
ihaken to its foundations, by the great civil war, and 
when the new society was built up, it knew not George- 
town. They foundede their own schools all through 
the South and Southwest,— and Georgetown had to 
depend upon Kentucky almost entirely both for stu- 
dents and endowment.. And Kentucky had meanwhile 
built up another College at Russell ville. 

So things had to settle down and the College make 
a new place for itself, and bide its time. The time was 
the longer, coming because of another circumstance. 
About 1870 the movement to bring the Southern Bap- 
tist Theological Seminary to Kentucky from South 
Carolina, was inaugurated. This involved the raising of 
$300,000 by Kentucky Baptists. This was a gigantic task 
and together with the additional calls upon them, made 
necessary by the presence and needs of this great and 
noble institution, completely absorbed their benevo- 
lence and attention for twenty years; — and in fact con- 
tinues largely to occupy them to this day. 

The College began to emerge from thi* 
period of comparative quiet and depression 
in 1879, when Doctor Richard M. Dudley 
was placed in charge of the institution. Doc- 
tor Dudley's administration covered a period of thir- 
teen years, — from 1879 to his untimely and lamented 
death in January, 1893, a most notable and eventful 
period in the history of Georgetown College,— and one 
whoi?e great importance is just now beginning to be 
clearly realized. Doctor Dudley's vigorous adminig- 



GEORGETOWN COUvEGE. 15 

trative ability, his clear, cool, sound judgement, 
his sincere straightforward Christian character, 
hi* admirable knowledge of human nature which made 
him so successful as a disciplinarian and manager of 
young men, — his self-sacrificing devotion to the insti- 
tution, — his power as a preacher, and his constantly 
growing influence with the denomination, — all these 
and other qualities told powerfully for the good of the 
College in all directions, and the momentum gathered 
and headway gained, continued to carry the College 
forward for several years, after his death. His great 
work for the College may be briefly summed up under 
three- heads: (1) His academic work, such as strength- 
ening of the Faculty, improving the curriculum, ele- 
vating the standard of work, increasing the attend- 
ance, adding new departments and facilities — in short, 
the general improvement of the rank of the institution, 
as an educational force in our State. This was tke 
work of the earlier years of his administration. One 
of the most important and far-reaching changes made 
under this head was the introduction of the co-educa- 
tional system, adopted and entered upon experiment- 
ally the very year of his death — a step which will have 
a powerful effect upon the destinies of the College for 
all time to come. (2) Additional buildings and equip- 
ments. The new President's house, the new chapel 
and gymnasium building, and Rucker Hall were the 
direct fruits of his labors; for while they were not ail 
of them built during his life, the funds that made th^m 
possible were provided, and the conditions of patron- 



16 GEORGETOWN COLLEGE. 

age and prospects that made them necessary, wers 
created by him. Thus about $90,000 worth of build- 
ings were added to the plant of the institution. (3) The 
growth of the endowment. Dnrrnsr Doctor Dudley's 
term of office, or as a direct result of his work, more 
than $150,000 was added to the property of the Col- 
lege. This of course includes the buildings above men- 
tioned. 

The Students' Association fund was completed 
and made productive in 1884. The Bostwiek fund was 
secured in 1889. The Georgetown and Scott county fund 
in 1888. The Maria Atnerton-Farnam Professorship in 
1893. The McCalla-Galloway Professorship in 1893. 
The Dudley Memorial in 1895. There were besides 
numerous smaller gifts during the years. 

In all this work Doctor Dudley was ably and 
grandly assisted by many others — notable Doctor W. 
M. Pratt, President of Board of Trustees, in securing 
Boswick fund, and the lately lost and much mourned 
son of the College. Doctor J. S. Felix, in connection 
with the Newton and Dudley memorials, and Professor 
J. J. Rucker, in connection with the Students' Asso- 
ciation fund and the Georgetown 'and Scott county 
fund, and many others who are now in this audience — 
but all joyfully and loyally acknowledge Doctor R. M. 
Dudley as their leader, and they looked to him for in- 
spiration through it all. 

With Doctor Dudley's administration it is proper 
that this hasty sketch should close. The more recent 
history of the College is too near to us to be under- 




DUNCAN R. CAMPBELL, 

PRESIDENT 1853-65. 



GEORGETOWN COLLEGE. 17 

stood in its perspective and broader relations. But 
before closing, I want to seize this opportunity to em- 
phasize some points of surpassing interest in thia 
Tecord. 

(1) Educational institutions, like political insti- 
tutions, are not made out of hand— they grow! It is 
a process of steady, gradual evolution. The charters 
are shaped by gradual amendments, the buildings are 
enlarged and added to, the departments of instruction 
are put in, one after another, the endowment is slowly 
increased — in fact, everything about a college must be 
slowly evolved and built up. 

(2) The splendid list of names found in the rec- 
ords, through all the years. We belong to no mean 
College! Our educational sires were men of mark. 
'Whether we look at the Boards of Trustees and offic- 
ers, or the presidents and members of the Faculty, or 
glance through the long lists of students, we constantly 
come upon names that count for much in the develop- 
ment of our State, especially of our Baptist denoimna- 
tion. Our first President of the Board was Silas M. 
Noel— one of the most eloquent, pious, energetic and 
forceful Baptist preachers in Kentucky during the ear- 
ly part of the last century. The second President of 
the Board was Rev. Thomas P. Dudley, who afterwards 
became the great exponent of our brethren of the 
Hardshell branch of our denomination. Then came 
Roger Quarles, and Gov. J. F. Robinson, David Chc- 
nault. W. Mv Pratt, and lastly, the present incumbent, 
our own much beloved Doctor Jno. A. Lewis, spWdid 



18 GEORGETOWN COLLEGE. 

and princely men all of them. The list of members of 
the Board is equally illumined by many names of men 
notable in Kentucky Baptist history. Turning' to the 
Faculty, we are gratiiied by what we find there. The 
Presidents have all been able and distinguished men. 
The Faculty has been filled with men whose names 
are widely known and honored. It is interesting to 
observe, how through the earlier catalogues the names 
of Professors Farnam, Thomas, and Rucker continu- 
ally recur together like a human clover leaf, on the 
page of the Faculty. Each of them served the College 
for almost or quite half a century; and now 
only one of them is left ! Along with these, 
in the earlier years, comes the name of Pro- 
fessor Wm. Garth, who was the same man who estab- 
lished the truly noble charity called the ''Garth 
Fund" for educating poor boys in Bourbon county. 
And there were Cadwallader Lewis and Henry Mc- 
Donald, and scores of other names that shed luster on 
the annals of our State and church. And if we look 
over the records of the 600 graduates, and 5,000 stm- 
dents, the impression grows that if we were to take out 
of the history of the Baptists in Kentucky the deeds 
and achievements, the names and the work of all the 
Trustees, the Presidents, Professors and Students of 
Georgetown College — what a mutilated record would 
be left ! In this connection it may not be amiss to re- 
mark that we have ample room for memorials here at 
Georgetown. We have our Paulding Hall, our Stu- 
dent's Chair, our MeCalla-Galloway Chair, our Maria 



GEORGETOWN COLLEGE. 19 

Atherton-Farnam Professorship, our Rueker Hall, our 
Dudley memorial, etc., etc. All these are well— very 
well! But there are other names that richly deserve 
to be thus immortalized here upon this campus. There 
are Giddings, and Campbell, and Thomas, and Mc- 
Donald, and J. S. Felix, and others who have lived and 
labored, and given of their money, and in other waya 
built their names into the fabric of this institution, 
in order that it might be the better for us, their chil- 
dren and successors. Some time we shall see, standing 
about upon these grounds, in some form, worthy mon- 
uments to their blessed memory. 

(3) A word about the endowment! Georgetown 
College has lost more money that it never received— 
and less that it did receive — that any other institution, 
I venture to say, in the whole South. It has already 
been explained how half of the Campbell endowment, 
and perhaps more than half of the Giddings endow- 
ment, were never paid into the College treasury at 
all, but was swept away in the calamities of panic 
and war, while it was still under the control of those 
who had promised it. And yet all that which was actu- 
ally paid into the treasury of the College is there yet, 
in spite of panics, and the Civil War, and floods, and 
disasters. None of it has been lost. It would seem that 
the safest place on earth for money is the treasury 
of the College— much safer than the pockets of the 
owners! For this remarkable financial record the 
College is indebted chiefly to two men, each of whom 
held the office of Treasurer for about thirty years. The 



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first of these was Major M. C. McCalla, who wai* 
Treasurer from about 1840 to 1866. With singular 
skill and devotion he served the institution without 
salary through all the early years of its poverty, and 
in addition made generous bequests in its favor in his 
will. The other great Treasurer is the present holder 
of the office, Judge George V. Payne, whose term of 
service began in 1873. It would be difficult to find in 
the annals of educational institutions more striking 
illustrations of faithful, long-continued and success- 
fn] financial service than is shown in the records of 
these two Treasurers. 

Lastly, let us note how the life of the College, like 
the life of an individual, ebbs and flows. There have 
been periods of great prosperity, of progress and ex- 
pansion, and then there have been seasons of quiet re- 
adjustment, of settling down and pulling together. 

The three great tides of advancement have come 
Tinder Giddings, Campbell and Dudley; partly perhaps- 
because of the conditions of the time, and partly be- 
cause of the great qualities of these able men. 

Between these epochs have come breathing 
spells and periods of waiting. It seems to me 
that we have just passed through to the end of a pe- 
riod of waiting— and that the clarion call of oppor- 
tunity is now heard summoning us to another epoek* 
of enlargement and unusual prosperity. 

The College has survived the frightful dissensions: 
which resulted from the work of Alexander Campbell, 
it has survived the super-heated political controversies: 



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which preceded and caused the great Civil War, it has 
survived the war itself, and the wreck and ruin of our 
state and section which it produced, it has survived 
the panics, the dissensions and controversies of recent 
years, and it is today the strongest institution of learn- 
ing of the Baptist people west of the Alleghaney Moun- 
tains and south of the Ohio River. Let us all thank 
God for the noble past, and rise and go forward. 



ADDRESS TO THE BAPTISTS OF 
KENTUCKY 



EROli THE BOARD Of TRUSTEES. 



At the June meeting, 1904, of the Trustees of 
Georgetown College, the undersigned were appointed 
a committee to prepare a short address to Kentucky 
Baptists. The purpose as then expressed was to pro- 
cure a more active and earnest interest in the College 
throughout the State. 

The trustees were impressed with the belief that 
there may be a want of information on the part of 
the great body of Kentucky Baptists as to the needs 
of the College. This great body, it was thought, was- 
too apt to judge the present and the future by the 
past and to conclude that because Georgetown College 
could once hold a prominent place among the literary 
institutions of the State with a small corps of teachers, 
and because those teachers gave their lives to the col- 
lege for salaries not equaling now the pay of many of 
the superintendents of the graded schools, that, there- 
fore, the College can now and in the future maintain* 

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its- position along-side of, if not in advance of, all the 
other colleges in the State. 

It was suggested, too, that many failed to appre- 
ciate the difference between colleges. That is, that 
they think, or seem to think, it does not matter where 
boys or girls graduate, just so they graduate ; that as 
a diploma from one college looks as nice and reads 
as well as from another, that it will serve as well as a 
recommendation where scholarship is called for as any 
other, and that, too, though it may be from a College 
scarcely known outside of the county where it is lo- 
cated, certainly not outside of a very limited number 
of the counties of the State. 

It is true that in the past Georgetown College has 
had a most honorable and useful career with what 
would be now a comparatively small corps of instruc- 
tors and a comparatively small endowment, and has 
sent out hundreds of young men with hearts and minds 
well equipped for life. But it should be remembered 
that the horizon has broadened since those old days, 
and that there is now a demand for wider scholarship 
and also for facilities for preparation in special call- 
ings, and that it devolves upon the Baptists of Ken- 
tucky to meet this demand, or else the College will take 
a secondary place among the colleges of the State. 

The course of study in Georgetown College is n>w 
•much broader than in the past. To meet this the Fac- 
ulty has been necessarily enlarged, but the fart re- 
mains that there is still need of its further enlarge- 
ment. 



24 GEORGETOWN COLLEGE. 

It should not be necessary to make an argument to 
impress the Baptists brotherhood with the importance 
of maintaining an institution of learning under their 
own control where Christian influences will be brought 
to bear forcibly upon the minds and hearts of those 
seeking instruction within its walls. As Baptists we 
should not surrender our interests in this connection 
to other institutions. 

Georgetown College, in view of its history, in view 
of its hold upon the hearts of the thousands who have 
been impressed by its influences and prepared by it 
for life's duties, in view of the necessity for maintain- 
ing a Baptist College— the peer of any in the land — 
for the education of boys and girls of Baptist homes, 
should have the earnest sympathy of the Baptist heart 
of Kentucky in its appeal for an immediate, liberal 
and increased endowment. 

The Baptist ministry of the State should especial- 
ly feel the importance of this work. It strikes home 
at the heart of that which they represent. The neces- 
sity for a Baptist College affording facilities for the 
broadest culture is absolutely essential to the progress 
and influence of the denomination in the State. They 
of all others should understand that the boys of Bap- 
tist homes of ambition and manly purpose will go 
where they can be best prepared for the contest they 
intend to make in life and that if there is not a Bap- 
tist College with facilities of the highest order for this 
preparation that they will go elsewhere to secure it. 

The glorious history of the College, as prepared 







J. J. TAYLOR, D.D., 

PRESIDENT 1904. 



GEORGETOWN COLLEGE. 25 

by Dr. Arthur Yager, and which is hereto annexed, and 
which so aptly and forcibly reviews its past, should, 
of itself, sei*ve as an inspiration to every Baptist heart 
ir renewed allegiance to this time-honored institution. 
Through struggles, tears, prayers and sacrifices it was 
founded by the fathers. Shall its future be clouded 
arid its usefulness impaired because the Baptists of this 
day fail to see, or if they see fail to meet, the demands 
of the situation. 

As already stated, the ministry of ajl others should 
see that educational power committed to a leading 
Baptist College in Kentucky is now and will more and 
more become the foundation upon which must b« 
planted the influence of the Baptist denomination in 
this State., We must now prove to the world that as 
Baptists we are in fact more forcibly than in theory 
the friends of an educated and enlightened ministry. 

And where is this ministry to come from? Will 
it come from an institution the care of which is not 
given especially to the creation and upbuilding of 
Christian character and the moulding of Christian 
thought? Will it come to Baptists from the ranks of 
those educated in other denominational institutions? 
Certainly not from any of these sources. 

To the former students o*f the College we also ap- 
peal. An appeal to them should thrill them as would 
a bugle call to arms the heart of a patriot citizen were 
a hostile army upon our shores. 

These old student* may be feund in homes oh 



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naountain and plain from the Bine Ridge to the Pa- 
cific. We feel snre of their affection for Georgetown 
College. Will not these veterans in life's battles now 
give of their time, and of their means, too, as God 
kas prospered them, in this decisive struggle for ar& 
institution as dear to their hearts as the homes of their 
childhood? 

To every Baptist in Kentucky we also appeal. Let 
these Baptists remember that education from some 
obscure, so-called college— however important it may- 
be to its own locality— will not meet the demands of 
the future that will become more and more exacting- 
as the population of the country increases and the 
struggle for existence and advancement more and 
more intense. Those not well equipped for this strug- 
gle will be relegated to the rear ranks of life. 

JAMES B. FINNELL, 
T. T. EATON, 
B. A. DAWES, 
ROMULUS PAYNE, 
? J. K. NUNNELLEY. 



GEORGETOWN GOLUEG&. 



FACULTY. 



J. J. Taylor, M. A., D. D., LL. D., President. 

James Jefferson Rucker, Master of Arts from George- 
town College, Doctor of Laws from Richmond Col- 
lege, Professor of Mathematics. 

Arthur Yager, Master of Arts from Georgetown Col- 
lege, Doctor of Philosophy from Johns Hopkins 
University, Students' Association Professor of 
History, Economics aad Political Science. 

David Edgar Fogle, Master of Arts from Georgetown 
College, Post-Graduate Student in University of 
Chicago, Student in Germany and France, Pro- 
fessor of Modern Languages. 

Glanville Terrell, Master of Arts from Leland Stanford 
University, Doctor of Philosophy from Harvard 
University, Teaeher in Harvard Simmer School, 
Professor of Ancient Languages. 

■Oarnett Ryland, Master of Arts from Richmond Col- 
lege, Doctor of Philosophy from Johns Hopkins 
University, Maria Atherton-Farnam Professor of 
Chemistry and Physics. 




28 GEORGETOWN COLLEGE. 

Edward Bagby Pollard, Master of Arts from Richmond 
College, Doctor of Philosophy from Yale Univer- 
sity, Professor of Biblical Literature. 

Joseph Judson Taylor, Master of Arts from Richmond 
College, Doctor of Divinity from Howard College, 
Doctor of Laws from South Western Baptist Uni- 
versity, R. M. Dudley Professor of Philosophy. 

Stonewall Jackson Pulliam, Master of Arts from Cen- 
tral University, Assistant Professor of Ancient 
Languages and Principal of the Academy. 

Henry A. Vanlandingham, Bachelor of Arts from Mis- 
sissippi College, Master of Arts from Harvard 
University, Professor of English Language and 
Literature. 

Wilson Lewis Kline, Bachelor of Science, Post-Gradu- 
ate Student in University of Chicago, Instructor 
in Biology and Director of Athletics. 

Edith Anita Roper, Bachelor of Arts, Assistant in 
Mathematics and English and Associate Principal 
- of the Academy. 

Maude Fowler Haman, Master of Arts from Peabody 
Normal College, Assistant in the Academy. 

Eugenia Pulliam, Graduate of Caldwell College, Dan- 
ville, Ky., Assistant in the Academy. 

Elizabeth Broderio Armstrong, Instructor in Elocution 
and Physical Culture. 



GEORGETOWN COLLEGE. 29 

Bobert Coulter Young, Graduate of the Famous New 
York Virgil Piano School, formerly teacher in 
Stephens College, Instructor in Piano Forte, 
teacher of Harmony and the History of Music. 

■■Gertrude Westlake, Bachelor of Music, Student from 
the Musical Conservatories of Dresden and Berlin, 
Instructor in Piano Forte. 

Xillian Stetson, Graduate in Music and Student under 
the famous Godosky of Berlin, Instructor in Piano 
Forte. 

Julia A. Winchell, Graduate in Music, and student un- 
der the best masters at Evanstons and Chicago, 
111., Instructor in Voice. 

Sidney Scott Lewis, Bachelor of Arts from Georgetown 
College, Student for four years at Cincinnati 
Academy of Art, Instructor in Art. 

Alice Rucker Bristow, Graduate of Georgetown Fe- 
male Seminary, in charge of Rucker Hall. 

, — ._ MeFerran, A. B., Assistant at Rucker Hall. 

Mary Moberley Dudley, Bachelor of Arts from George- 
town College, Librarian. 



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Location— In the heart of the famous Blue Grass 
region of Kentucky— one of the most beautiful and 
healthful regions on the face of the earth. 

Accessibility— Georgetown is situated at the junc- 
tion of three railroads— Q. <fe C, F. & C, and Louisville 
Southern — about seventy miles from Cincinnati and 
Louisville. There is also a trolley road with hourly 
cars connecting it with Lexington. 

Buildings and Grounds and Apparatus— Seven 
large buildings, scattered upon thirty acres of beau- 
tiful grounds ; three of them large dormitories ; library 
of 15,000 volumes; reading room containing choicest 
newspapers and magazines; well-equipped gymnasium; 
good chemical and physical laboratories with geolog- 
ical cabinet and museum. 

Athletics — The College is a member of the Inter- 
Collegiate Athletic Association, participating in all the 
contests. There are base ball, foot ball and basket ball 
grounds, tennis courts, bowling alley, etc., etc. George- 
town won tke base ball championship for Kentucky 
in 1904. 

Co-educational — Georgetown is co-educational, 
but with a difference on two points: First, co-educa- 
tion does not mean identical education. There is of- 
fered at Georgetown a sufficient number of various 
courses and degrees to furnish ample room for choice 
for both sexes. Second, unrestrained and promiscuous 
social intercourse between the girls and boys is not 
permitted. The girls are placed in a beautiful, large 
dormitory under as careful guardianship and as strict 



32 GEORGETOWN COLLEGE. 

ehaperonage as in any separate school for girls. This? 
is a happy compromise between the medieval convent 
school on the one hand and the free intermingling of 
the sexes on the playgrounds and in the recitations 
rooms on the other. 

Expenses for the Entire Session of Ten Months. 

Boarders — Young ladies: Board at Rucker Rall^ 
including room rent and laundry, $160. Boys : Board 
at the boys' dormitories (at cost) which usually 
amounts to about $110, including room rent. Board in 
the town costs about $3.50 per week. 

Fees— Tuition in the College, $45. Tuition in* 
Academy, $25 to $35, according to grade. Matricula- 
tion fee, $5. Gymnasium fee (for boys), $5. 

Arrangements have been perfected by means of 
which the younger boys will be placed in special dor- 
mitory under the close supervision of a member of" 
the Faculty. The total cost, including board and all 
fees for this class of boys, $225. 

Extras. 

Music (with the use of piano) , $60 0O 

Elocution (two hours per week) 40 0O> 

Art 30 00 

For catalogues and further information write to* 

DR. J. J. TAYLOR, President. 



